Healthcare Legal Services Manager

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust in a key management role. We are looking for a lawyer who shares our passion to support staff in the delivery of outstanding healthcare and demonstrates the Trust’s values to achieve that aim.

We recognise that working in-house is a niche role and would be keen to hear from candidates with relevant experience who have an interest in developing a fulfilling career in the NHS.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Healthcare Legal Services Manager is to lead the Salisbury Healthcare Legal Team in the provision of a dedicated in-house legal service, to mitigate risk and achieve costs savings, across the following core areas:

Healthcare advice: including but not limited to consent, capacity, data protection, Mental Health Act and regulatory proceedings, for both adults and children.

Disclosure requests from the police and local authority on childcare and criminal proceedings, where the Trust may not be a party to proceedings.

Claims: management of Clinical Negligence and Third Party Claims, in line with NHSR’s schemes. We work closely with clinicians and our Divisions to robustly defend claims, protecting the interests of the Trust.

Inquests: support and representation of staff in the Coroner’s Court. We work closely with our local Coroners on a large portfolio of inquests.

Training: internal and external training on above core areas of work.

See job description for more details.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in law
  • Legal practice/Bar practice course/ CILEX with appropriate post graduate level courses

Desirable

  • Current Practicing Certificate as a Solicitor / Barrister / Legal Executive of the Courts of England and Wales.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in healthcare law/ litigation on behalf of the NHS.
  • Significant advocacy experience at Coroner’s inquests.

Desirable

  • Experience of working inhouse for a large NHS organisation and knowledge of medical terminology
  • Working knowledge of NHS complaints process.
  • Experience of managing third party claims, including employers’ and public liability claims.
  • Experience of reporting and analysing data to demonstrate trends and learning
  • Management experience and ability to supervise junior members of staff.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

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